Grammatical Reconstruction : The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea

Don Daniels

ISBN 10: 3110615142 / ISBN 13: 9783110615142

Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 36274521/12

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Grammatical Reconstruction : The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea
• Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3110615142
• ISBN-13: 9783110615142
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Sehr gut
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Inhaltsangabe

There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Don Daniels, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.